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Hahnemann, S., &Dudgeon, R. E. (2002). Organon of medicine.
(First published as The Organon of the Art of Healing in Dresden,
Germany in 1810). New Delhi, India: BJain Publishers.
Haller, J. (2005). The high dilutionists. In J. S. Haller, Jr., The
history of American homeopathy (pp. 85–108). Boca Raton, FL:
CRC Press.
Haller, J. (2009). The history of American homeopathy: From
rational medicine to holistic health care. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Granholm, K., &Asprem, E. (2014). Contemporary esotericism.
London, UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Hanegraaff, W. J. (2002). New age religion. In L. Woodhead, P.
Fletcher, H. Kawanami, &D. Smith (Eds.), Religions in the
modern world: Traditions and transformations (pp. 249–63).
London, UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Harrington, A. (2005). Uneasy alliances: The faith factor in
medicine the health factor in religion. In James D. Proctor (Ed.),
Science, religion, and the human experience (pp. 287–308).
Heelas, P. (2014). On transgressing the secular: Spiritualities of
life, idealism, vitalism. In S. J. Sutcliffe &I. S. Gilhus, New Age
spirituality: Rethinking religion (pp. 72–89). Oxfordshire,
UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Heelas, P., Woodhead, L., Seel, B., Tusting, K., &Szerszynski, B.
(2005). The spiritual revolution: Why religion is giving way to
spirituality. Malden, MA/Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Hoffman, S. J., Mansoor, Y., Natt, N., Sritharan, L., Belluz, J.,
Caulfield, T., … &Sharma, A. M. (2017). Celebrities’ impact on
health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status
outcomes: Protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and
meta-regression analysis. Systematic Reviews, 6(1), 13.
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (2010,
February). Evidence check 2: Homeopathy: Fourth report of
session 2009–10, report, together with formal minutes, oral and
written evidence (Vol. 45). London, UK: The Stationery Office.
Hviding, E. (1996). Nature, culture, magic, science: On meta-
languages for comparison in cultural ecology. In P. Descola &G.
Paisson (Eds.), Nature and society: Anthropological perspectives
(conference proceedings pp.165–184). London, UK/New York,
NY: Routledge.
Jütte, R. (2014). Hahnemann and placebo. Homeopathy, 103(3),
208–212.
Levy, D. C. (2016). Clinical reasoning and decision-making in
homeopathy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
(Doctoral dissertation, University of Sydney, Australia).
Lyon, D. (2013). Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in postmodern
times. (First published in 2000 by Polity Press in association with
Blackwell Publishers Ltd.). Cambridge/Oxford UK &Boston, MA:
Polity Press.
MacArtney, J. I., &Wahlberg, A. (2014). The problem of
complementary and alternative medicine use today: Eyes half
closed? Qualitative Health Research, 24(1), 114–123.
Mäkelä, E., &Petsche, J. J. (2013). Serious parody: Discordianism
as liquid religion. Culture and Religion, 14(4), 411–423.
Manca, T. (2012). L. Ron Hubbard’s alternative to the bomb
shelter: Scientology’s emergence as a pseudo-science during the
1950s. The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 24(1), 80–96.
Mao, J. J., Palmer, C. S., Healy, K. E., Desai, K., &Amsterdam, J.
(2011). Complementary and alternative medicine use among
cancer survivors: A population-based study. Journal of Cancer
Survivorship, 5(1), 8–17.
Partridge, C. (2016). Occulture and everyday enchantment. In
James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen (Eds.), The Oxford
handbook of new religions, Vol. II (pp. 315–334). New York, NY:
Oxford University Press.
Perry, W. N. (1984). The alchemy in homeopathy. Studies in
Comparative Religion, 1(6), 1–33. Available online at
http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/Public/archive/issue
s.aspx?v=16&n=1%20and%202&t=Winter-Spring&y=1984
Possamai, A. (2003). Alternative spiritualities and the cultural
logic of late capitalism. Culture and religion, 4(1), 31–45.
Possamai, A. (Ed.). (2012). Handbook of hyper-real religions, vol.
5. (Brill Handbooks on Comparative Religion.) Leiden,
Netherlands: Brill.
Praderio, C. (2017, Nov. 30). Doctors roast Gwyneth Paltrow’s
Goop for promoting a medical treatment that’s been completely
discredited Insider. Available online at
https://www.thisisinsider.com/doctors-criticize-goop-twitter-
homeopathy-2017-11
Robertson, B. A. (2014). Radiant healing: Gender, belief and
alternative medicine in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 1927–
1935. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent
Religions, 18(1), 16–36.
Scofano, D., &Luz, M. T. (2008). Vitalism and vital
normativeness: Hahnemann and Canguilhem. International
Journal of High Dilution Research, 7(24), 140–146.
Shaw, D. M. (2014). Homeopathy is faith healing without
religion. Focus on Alternative and Complementary
Therapies, 19(1), 27–29.
Sigalow, E. (2016). Towards a sociological framework of religious
syncretism in the United States. Journal of the American Academy
of Religion, 84(4), 1029–1055.
Stevens, P. (2001). Magical thinking in complementary and
alternative medicine. Skeptical Inquirer, 25(6), 32–37.
Streib, H., &Hood, R. W. (2013). Modeling the religious field:
Religion, spirituality, mysticism and related world views. Implicit
Religion, 16(2), 137–155.
Swanson, K. (2018). The Gentle Wind Project: Quasi-religion and
alternative health. International Journal of Cultic Studies, 9(2),
55–69.
Vigano, G., Nannei, P., &Bellavite, P. (2015). Homeopathy: From
tradition to science? Journal of Medicine and the Person, 13(1), 7–
17.
Williams-Hogan, J. (2016). Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg’s
religious writings on three visual artists. Nova Religio: The Journal
of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 19(4), pp.119–144.
About the Author
Jonathan Simmons received his PhD from the
University of Alberta. His research interests
include nonreligion, new religious movements,
and human rights. His work has been published
in Social Movement Studies, the Canadian
Journal of Sociology, and the International
Hahnemann, S., &Dudgeon, R. E. (2002). Organon of medicine.
(First published as The Organon of the Art of Healing in Dresden,
Germany in 1810). New Delhi, India: BJain Publishers.
Haller, J. (2005). The high dilutionists. In J. S. Haller, Jr., The
history of American homeopathy (pp. 85–108). Boca Raton, FL:
CRC Press.
Haller, J. (2009). The history of American homeopathy: From
rational medicine to holistic health care. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Granholm, K., &Asprem, E. (2014). Contemporary esotericism.
London, UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Hanegraaff, W. J. (2002). New age religion. In L. Woodhead, P.
Fletcher, H. Kawanami, &D. Smith (Eds.), Religions in the
modern world: Traditions and transformations (pp. 249–63).
London, UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Harrington, A. (2005). Uneasy alliances: The faith factor in
medicine the health factor in religion. In James D. Proctor (Ed.),
Science, religion, and the human experience (pp. 287–308).
Heelas, P. (2014). On transgressing the secular: Spiritualities of
life, idealism, vitalism. In S. J. Sutcliffe &I. S. Gilhus, New Age
spirituality: Rethinking religion (pp. 72–89). Oxfordshire,
UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Heelas, P., Woodhead, L., Seel, B., Tusting, K., &Szerszynski, B.
(2005). The spiritual revolution: Why religion is giving way to
spirituality. Malden, MA/Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Hoffman, S. J., Mansoor, Y., Natt, N., Sritharan, L., Belluz, J.,
Caulfield, T., … &Sharma, A. M. (2017). Celebrities’ impact on
health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status
outcomes: Protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and
meta-regression analysis. Systematic Reviews, 6(1), 13.
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (2010,
February). Evidence check 2: Homeopathy: Fourth report of
session 2009–10, report, together with formal minutes, oral and
written evidence (Vol. 45). London, UK: The Stationery Office.
Hviding, E. (1996). Nature, culture, magic, science: On meta-
languages for comparison in cultural ecology. In P. Descola &G.
Paisson (Eds.), Nature and society: Anthropological perspectives
(conference proceedings pp.165–184). London, UK/New York,
NY: Routledge.
Jütte, R. (2014). Hahnemann and placebo. Homeopathy, 103(3),
208–212.
Levy, D. C. (2016). Clinical reasoning and decision-making in
homeopathy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
(Doctoral dissertation, University of Sydney, Australia).
Lyon, D. (2013). Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in postmodern
times. (First published in 2000 by Polity Press in association with
Blackwell Publishers Ltd.). Cambridge/Oxford UK &Boston, MA:
Polity Press.
MacArtney, J. I., &Wahlberg, A. (2014). The problem of
complementary and alternative medicine use today: Eyes half
closed? Qualitative Health Research, 24(1), 114–123.
Mäkelä, E., &Petsche, J. J. (2013). Serious parody: Discordianism
as liquid religion. Culture and Religion, 14(4), 411–423.
Manca, T. (2012). L. Ron Hubbard’s alternative to the bomb
shelter: Scientology’s emergence as a pseudo-science during the
1950s. The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 24(1), 80–96.
Mao, J. J., Palmer, C. S., Healy, K. E., Desai, K., &Amsterdam, J.
(2011). Complementary and alternative medicine use among
cancer survivors: A population-based study. Journal of Cancer
Survivorship, 5(1), 8–17.
Partridge, C. (2016). Occulture and everyday enchantment. In
James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen (Eds.), The Oxford
handbook of new religions, Vol. II (pp. 315–334). New York, NY:
Oxford University Press.
Perry, W. N. (1984). The alchemy in homeopathy. Studies in
Comparative Religion, 1(6), 1–33. Available online at
http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/Public/archive/issue
s.aspx?v=16&n=1%20and%202&t=Winter-Spring&y=1984
Possamai, A. (2003). Alternative spiritualities and the cultural
logic of late capitalism. Culture and religion, 4(1), 31–45.
Possamai, A. (Ed.). (2012). Handbook of hyper-real religions, vol.
5. (Brill Handbooks on Comparative Religion.) Leiden,
Netherlands: Brill.
Praderio, C. (2017, Nov. 30). Doctors roast Gwyneth Paltrow’s
Goop for promoting a medical treatment that’s been completely
discredited Insider. Available online at
https://www.thisisinsider.com/doctors-criticize-goop-twitter-
homeopathy-2017-11
Robertson, B. A. (2014). Radiant healing: Gender, belief and
alternative medicine in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 1927–
1935. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent
Religions, 18(1), 16–36.
Scofano, D., &Luz, M. T. (2008). Vitalism and vital
normativeness: Hahnemann and Canguilhem. International
Journal of High Dilution Research, 7(24), 140–146.
Shaw, D. M. (2014). Homeopathy is faith healing without
religion. Focus on Alternative and Complementary
Therapies, 19(1), 27–29.
Sigalow, E. (2016). Towards a sociological framework of religious
syncretism in the United States. Journal of the American Academy
of Religion, 84(4), 1029–1055.
Stevens, P. (2001). Magical thinking in complementary and
alternative medicine. Skeptical Inquirer, 25(6), 32–37.
Streib, H., &Hood, R. W. (2013). Modeling the religious field:
Religion, spirituality, mysticism and related world views. Implicit
Religion, 16(2), 137–155.
Swanson, K. (2018). The Gentle Wind Project: Quasi-religion and
alternative health. International Journal of Cultic Studies, 9(2),
55–69.
Vigano, G., Nannei, P., &Bellavite, P. (2015). Homeopathy: From
tradition to science? Journal of Medicine and the Person, 13(1), 7–
17.
Williams-Hogan, J. (2016). Influence of Emanuel Swedenborg’s
religious writings on three visual artists. Nova Religio: The Journal
of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 19(4), pp.119–144.
About the Author
Jonathan Simmons received his PhD from the
University of Alberta. His research interests
include nonreligion, new religious movements,
and human rights. His work has been published
in Social Movement Studies, the Canadian
Journal of Sociology, and the International
